Arianna Huffington's outsized personality was never going to fit easily into Verizon, but her departure from The Huffington Post doesn't minimize her impact on journalism and the Internet.
by Leon Lazaroff
When Verizon (VZ) decided to pay $4.4 billion in May 2015 to acquire AOL, it begged the question what CEO Lowell McAdam planned to do with The Huffington Post and its mercurial founder and always-on leader, Arianna Huffington.
Verizon, of course, purchased AOL for its powerhouse advertising technology and the potential of integrating those operations with its wireless business, the country's largest, and most recently with the acquisition of Yahoo!'s (YHOO) core operations for $4.8 billion. Huffington Post and AOL's other websites such as Engadget were nice additions but were never going to be McAdam's focus.